Halloween Highlights

We enjoyed a mild Halloween Day today here in Duluth. Here are a few highlights...

Isaac helped me with an afternoon treat project (hidden pumpkin treat surprise):

Plenty of time for brotherly silliness around home in between our activities:

Following an unplanned visit to the park (which weather and energy levels insisted upon), an afternoon excursion to St. Scholastica where we trick-or-treated in the resident halls and participated in some carnival activities in between...

 Our "Thomas the Tank Engine" (for the 2nd year in a row) and our little pumpkin:

 And back home to hand out goodies for our many trick-or-treaters...both of the boys equally enjoyed the many dressed up visitors coming to our door!

Fall Festivities

We've been enjoying Fall these past few weeks and trying to keep up with the falling leaves in our backyard. Fortunately we have a couple of enthusiastic "helpers" to make the chore of raking leaves a little more enjoyable...

Taking a break from the raking...

David watching big brother load the bag full of leaves...

This weekend we picked up our Halloween pumpkins and had some fun decorating them in our own ways...

Papa went the 'ole Jack-o-Lantern route...

The end result, 4 uniquely decorated pumpkins which we'll keep inside until Halloween. Note: Isaac took the picture below of me and our Halloween stash. He has been quite interested in becoming "the photographer" lately...

Had to include this pic of the boys...hard to catch them still these days, let alone together!

D's First Haircut

This weekend David had his first haircut. Being a busy, not-stopping-for-a-second kind of an almost 16-month old, combined with the fact that this would be a "first" experience for him, we weren't exactly sure how it all would go. Turns out having big brother sit next to him (also getting his haircut) was a good distraction. All things considered, David was a very good customer (thanks to his favorite truck book and a taste of his first dum-dum sucker during the process :-)) Check out a few highlights:

Just sitting down - where is this place?

Mmmm...I like haircuts!

Just like a pro

Just for fun, I pulled the pics of big brother Isaac's first haircut (on his 1st birthday), see for yourself:

Seems like something in the mouth was the trick both times around! Milestones are so bitter-sweet!

AWANA Prayer Card

I picked up Isaac from our weekly Wednesday AWANA Clubs at church tonight, and I was handed this prayer card from his teacher:

In case you need help with the words, it reads "Dear God, Thank you for Lighting McQueen. Thank you God that Jesus is strong and He can heal my Dad. Amen" - Isaac Johnson
(Healing "Dad" (Joel) is referring to a severe sprained ankle that Joel received this past weekend while running the Twin Cities 10-mile race)

Faith like a child is a wonderful thing, and tonight was a good reminder of that in its simplest form.